Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University of California Press Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran Film Culture
Book SynopsisRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effect on Iranian film culture in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and Iran became a notable site of world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Titles Introduction 1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints Film Traffic and Regional Influence Serials Out of Sync Ironies of Appropriation 2. Circulation Worries Sustenance: Engineering and Maintenance Copyright: The Public Good and Creativity License: Junk Prints and Affidavits of Destruction Obsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage 3. Collage Sound as Industrial Practice Founding and the Found Archiving, Assembly, and Recognition Temp Love, Out of Sync Relaying the Popular Song 4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran Noir The Crime Thriller as Currency in the Press Currency Disputes Aesthetic Standards and Scarce Resources Modularity and Fluency Mixed Signals of Kin and Home 5. Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes Year of The Heroes Failures of The Heroes Kimiai’s First Film Cycle Sponsorship, Nostalgia, and Collecting Under the Sign of Rio Bravo Coda Notes Index
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University of California Press Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran
Book SynopsisRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effect on Iranian film culture in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and Iran became a notable site of world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Titles Introduction 1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints Film Traffic and Regional Influence Serials Out of Sync Ironies of Appropriation 2. Circulation Worries Sustenance: Engineering and Maintenance Copyright: The Public Good and Creativity License: Junk Prints and Affidavits of Destruction Obsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage 3. Collage Sound as Industrial Practice Founding and the Found Archiving, Assembly, and Recognition Temp Love, Out of Sync Relaying the Popular Song 4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran Noir The Crime Thriller as Currency in the Press Currency Disputes Aesthetic Standards and Scarce Resources Modularity and Fluency Mixed Signals of Kin and Home 5. Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes Year of The Heroes Failures of The Heroes Kimiai’s First Film Cycle Sponsorship, Nostalgia, and Collecting Under the Sign of Rio Bravo Coda Notes Index
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University of California Press The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Book SynopsisThe Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri is a profound and introspective account of a man's journey through early 20th-century India. The narrative weaves the personal with the historical, using the author's life as a lens to explore the broader struggles of Indian civilization confronting British imperialism and modernity. Chaudhuri's intention is to present not merely a memoir but a historical testimony, highlighting the intersection of individual experience with societal evolution. His unique perspective, shaped by an exceptional and unconventional path, offers a vantage point akin to an aerial viewdetached yet deeply connected to the land below. Written with unflinching honesty, the book delves into themes of identity, colonialism, and the trajectory of Indian society, emphasizing the tension between the dominant national currents and the often-overlooked exceptions that resist them. Addressing an English-speaking audience, Chaudhuri aims to provide insight i
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University of California Press Ethnocriticism
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University of California Press Racial Uncertainties
Book SynopsisMexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the postcivil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal bureaucracy, local school officials, parents, and community activists sought to turn Mexican American racial identity to their own benefit. This is the first book that examines the pivotal 1973 Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 Supreme Court ruling, and how debates over Mexican Americans' racial position helped reinforce the emerging tropes of colorblind racial ideology. In the postcivil rights era, when overt racism was no longer socially acceptable, anti-integration voices utilized the indeterminacy of Mexican American racial identity to frame their opposition to school desegregation. That some Mexican Americans adopted these tropes only reinforced the strength of colorblindness in battles against civil rights in the 1970s.Trade Review"This is an important book, and educational, civil rights, and Texas historians will find much within to appreciate and discuss." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Racial Uncertainties explains how racial and ethnic identities are both time and space specific but also how the law works to cement our understanding of identity and eliminate the possibility for fluidity." * The Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • (Un)making Mexican American Racial Identity, 1848–1964 2 • Racial Migrations: The Mile High City in Transition, 1945–1969 3 • Public Schools in Denver’s Racialized Urban Geography 4 • Becoming Minority under the Law 5 • “Not White, Yet Not, in the Old-Style Parlance, ‘Colored’ ” 6 • “American,” Not “Minority”: Mexican Americans and Colorblindness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Taking Children A History of American Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a formidable book, one that cuts against the Trump exceptionalism that suffuses much mainstream liberal discourse." * Boston Review *“An incisive history of kidnapping as American policy. . . . Connects these into a seamless tale of torment, torture and arrogance; a description of US history if there ever was one. It is a history that demands a reckoning.” * CounterPunch *“A forceful and captivating book that readers won’t be able to put down, and that listeners from all sort of backgrounds will definitely want to hear more about.” * New Books Network *Briggs . . . recounts outrages that are only a few decades old. Resurrecting this forgotten history, she demonstrates its continuity with the recent separation of migrant families.” * Reason *“A meticulously-researched, humane, and highly readable work of scholarship. . . . Essential reading for all those with an interest in human rights, social justice issues, child welfare, immigration and American history. It should inspire a generation to challenge and resist the cruel practice of taking children for political ends.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide- ranging and uncomfortably revealing account of what might be called the tradition of family separation." * New York Review of Books *"Briggs’ storytelling style in this incisive and well-researched text will keep readers engaged and moving quickly through its pages. . . .Taking Children is an important read for social work students considering a career in child welfare or family services and for professionals and lawmakers interested in movements to reform systems that have historically served to control and police the behavior of individuals and communities of color." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Taking Children serves as a powerful manifesto. . . .to promote greater solidarity and activism among many different groups that have been so unjustly targeted for child removal." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"Briggs’ sympathy is clear. . . . A useful background resource for courses on immigration issues." * Religious Studies Review *"Taking Children[’s]… accessible and engaging language would serve undergraduate gender and women’s studies classes well. Pedagogical discussions inspired by this book might explore historical memory and mythmaking, grassroots activism, and the symbolic significance of children in the American imagination." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Amnesia 1. Taking Black Children 2. Taking Native Children 3. Taking Children in Latin America 4. Criminalizing Families of Color 5. Taking the Children of Refugees Conclusion: Taking Children Back—Resistance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sameness in Diversity Food and Globalization in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tensions between homogenizing and diversifying influences in the supply chain throw uncertainty on what we now mean by ‘authenticity’ when it comes to food and culture. This book would appeal to social scientists, anthropologists, historians and the general public." * Nature *"The book’s wide range of topics . . . affords an opportunity, especially for non-specialists, to explore many important issues related to agriculture and food in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsList of Tables Foreword by Carol Helstosky Editor’s Note Introduction 1. The Globalization of the Fruit and Vegetable Trade 2. The Consolidation and Globalization of Grocery Stores 3. Marketing Ethnic Foods at Supermarkets 4. The Changing American Restaurant 5. Cookbooks Navigate the Globe 6. Indian Restaurants in America: A Case Study in Translating Diversity 7. Chinese Food from Chinatown to the Suburbs 8. Tortilla Politics Conclusion: What Is an Authentic Taco? List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Political Body
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Places revolutionary activism and explicitly political practices at the center of art created by women in the region. . . . The author’s recollection of the abortion rights movement’s activity in Argentina, which successfully won its legalization in the country two years ago, resonates especially strongly as reproductive rights remain under attack." * Hyperallergic *"A nuanced examination of the way female-identifying artists responded to the social and political movements of the late twentieth century and how their art and performance transformed in relation to diversifying frameworks of feminist thought." * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsContents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1. Art and Feminism: Politics of Representation 2. Artists between Activisms: Clemencia Lucena and María Luisa Bemberg—A Comparative Study 3. A Portrait in Absentia: Narcisa Hirsch and Experimental Film in Buenos Aires 4. Feminist Arts in Mexico: Manifestos, Lectures, Exhibitions, and Activisms 5. Archives, Performance, and Resistance: Nelbia Romero and Art from Uruguay under Dictatorship 6. Feel, despite Everything: Paz Errázuriz, Photography, and Dictatorship in Chile 7. Black Art Is Brasil: Rosana Paulino, Archives, and Memory of Slavery 8. Art and Feminism in Argentina Now GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX
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University of California Press Carlos Villa
Book SynopsisThis expansive catalogue illuminates the social and cultural rootsand global importanceof iconic Filipino American artist and educator Carlos Villa's artwork and career. Carlos Villa has been described as the preeminent Filipino American artista legend in artistic circles for his groundbreaking approaches and his influence on countless artistsbut he remains littleknown to many fans and scholars of modern and contemporary art.Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision is the first museum retrospective of his work, presented at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Villa was trained at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist, and over time he transformed his practice to address issues of ethnic and cultural diversity. He concurrently assumed a leadership role in Third World and multicultural international art movements, and his large-scale works reference non-Western traditions, including tattoo, scarification, ritual, and ceremony. He was also an important theorist, curator, and organizer of public forums that he called actions. This book traces the arc of his career from 1969 until his death in 2013, with emphasis on his feathered works from the 1970s, as well as later works that address aspects of the history of Filipinos in the United States. It illuminates the social and cultural rootsand global importanceof Villa's art and teaching career as he sought to forge a new kind ofart-world inclusion that reflected his own experience, commitment to diversity, andboundary-bending imagination. Published in association with the San Francisco Art Institute. Exhibition dates: Newark Museum of Art: February 8, 2022May 8, 2022 San Francisco Art Institute & Asian Art Museum:June 17, 2022Fall 2022Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Jennifer Rissler PREFACE Tracing Carlos Villa’s Path Jay Xu FOREWORD Making the World Smaller: Carlos Villa’s Polyculturalism Lucy R. Lippard INTRODUCTION Roots, Rituals, Actions : Worlds in Collision Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg Carlos Villa: Ascent against the Odds Paul J. Karlstrom PORTFOLIO Ethnographic Inspirations: Works from the 1970s Mark Dean Johnson, Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, and Sherwin Rio Transcultural Sampling: The Reimagined Worlds of Carlos Villa Margo Machida PORTFOLIO A Smaller World: Carlos Villa and the Global Collections at the Newark Museum Tricia Laughlin Bloom Villa’s Fake Book Theodore S. Gonzalves America Is In His Art: Carlos Villa’s Poetics of Multiculturalism Luis H. Francia PORTFOLIO Words in Space: Carlos Villa’s 1990s Notepad Drawings Mark Dean Johnson, Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, and Sherwin Rio Worlds in Collision, Exploding Galaxy, Voyage into the Absolute Patrick D. Flores CATALOGUE Mark Dean Johnson and Sherwin Rio CHRONOLOGY Sherwin Rio SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of California Press The Voice of The Tambaran
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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University of California Press California Slavic Studies Volume XI
Book SynopsisThis volume of California Slavic Studies showcases an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly essays and primary sources, delving into the rich cultural, literary, and historical narratives of the Slavic world. Edited by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Gleb Struve, and Thomas Eekman, the book features diverse topics, including eschatological themes in Russian literature, poetic explorations by Osip Mandelstam, and historical accounts like Prince Peter Kozlovsky's correspondence. This academic compilation serves as a crucial resource for understanding the complexity of Slavic contributions to global history and culture, while offering readers insights into the nuanced perspectives of prominent thinkers and writers. In addition to its literary analyses, the volume broadens its focus to include sociocultural studies, such as feminine representations in Old Russian literature and art, and an examination of Jewish reforms during the Enlightened Absolutism era in Europe. Scholars and enthusiasts of Slavic studies will find this edition invaluable for its depth, as it bridges historical documentation and theoretical frameworks, enriching the discourse on Slavic influence across disciplines. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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University of California Press Education in Tokugawa Japan
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University of California Press Transborder Los Angeles An Unknown Transpacific
Book SynopsisFocusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from international relations between Japan, Mexico, and the US to the Southern California farmland, where ethnic Japanese and Mexicans played a significant role in developing local agriculture, one of the major industries of LA County before World War II. Japanese, Mexicans, and white Americans developed a unique triracial hierarchy in farmland that generated both conflict and interethnic accommodation by bringing together local issues and international concerns beyond the Pacific Ocean and the US-Mexico border. Viewing these experiences in a single narrative form, Tokunaga breaks new ground, demonstrating the close relationships between the ban on Japanese immigration, Mexican farmworkers' strikes, wartime Japanese removal, and the Bracero Program.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands 1. The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Unintended Consequence in the US-Mexico Borderlands 2. The Deepening of Japanese-Mexican Relations in Triracial Los Angeles 3. Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Farmers and Mexican Workers in the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike 4. Ethnic Solidarity or Interethnic Accommodation: The 1936 Venice Celery Strike 5. Japanese Internment as an Agricultural Labor Crisis: Wartime Debates over Food Security versus Military Necessity 6. Enduring Interethnic Trust in Rancho San Pedro Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Speaking Out of Turn
Book SynopsisSpeaking Out of Turn is the first monograph dedicated to the forty-year oeuvre of feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady. Examining O'Grady's use of language, both written and spoken, Stephanie Sparling Williams charts the artist's strategic use of direct addressthe dialectic posture her art takes in relationship to its viewersto trouble the field of vision and claim a voice in the late 1970s through the 1990s, when her voice was seen as out of turn in the art world. Speaking Out of Turn situates O'Grady's significant contributions within the history of American conceptualism and performance art while also attending to the work's heightened visibility in the contemporary moment, revealing both the marginalization of O'Grady in the past and an urgent need to revisit her art in the present.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mark My Words 2. "I Am Not a Performance Artist" 3. Manifestos and Mythmaking 4. The Diptych and "Spatial Narrative" Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Blackness as a Universal Claim
Book SynopsisIn this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for their everyday struggle. Partridge tracks how these youth invoke the expressions of Black Power, acting out the medal-podium salute from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming I am Malcolm X, expressing mutual struggle with Muhammad Ali and Spike Lee, and standing with raised and clenched fists next to Angela Davis. Partridge also documents the demands by public-school teachers, federal-program leaders, and politicians that young immigrants account for the global persistence of anti-Semitism as part of the German state's commitment to antigenocidal education. He uses these stories to interrogate the relationships among European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and Black futures, showing how noncitizens work to reshape their everydTrade Review"[The book] succeeds in demonstrating the need for Blackness as a mode of seeing across the totality of human existence." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"By focusing on how the rhetoric about Blackness shifted and was impacted by external events like the Civil Rights Movement within the context of the occupation and democratization period in Germany, this discussion sets the stage for linking the emerging historical contradictions with Holocaust memory and processes of democratization." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I OCCUPYING BLACKNESS 1. After Diaspora, Beyond Citizenship 2. Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany: Occupying Black Bodies and Postwar Desire 3. Occupying American Blackness and Reconfiguring European Spaces: Noncitizen Articulations in Berlin and Beyond PART II HOLOCAUST MEMORY AND EXCLUSIONARY DEMOCRACY 4. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amid Contemporary Race 5. Democratization as Exclusion: Noncitizen Futures, Holocaust Heritage, and the Defunding of Refugee Participation PART III NONCITIZEN FUTURES 6. The Rehearsal Is the Revolution: “Insurrectionary Imagination” 7. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity versus Black Possibility Conclusion: From Claiming Blackness to Black Liberation Key Terms and Sites Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Blackness as a Universal Claim
Book SynopsisIn this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for their everyday struggle. Partridge tracks how these youth invoke the expressions of Black Power, acting out the medal-podium salute from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming I am Malcolm X, expressing mutual struggle with Muhammad Ali and Spike Lee, and standing with raised and clenched fists next to Angela Davis. Partridge also documents the demands by public-school teachers, federal-program leaders, and politicians that young immigrants account for the global persistence of anti-Semitism as part of the German state's commitment to antigenocidal education. He uses these stories to interrogate the relationships among European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and Black futures, showing how noncitizens work to reshape their everydTrade Review"[The book] succeeds in demonstrating the need for Blackness as a mode of seeing across the totality of human existence." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"By focusing on how the rhetoric about Blackness shifted and was impacted by external events like the Civil Rights Movement within the context of the occupation and democratization period in Germany, this discussion sets the stage for linking the emerging historical contradictions with Holocaust memory and processes of democratization." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I OCCUPYING BLACKNESS 1. After Diaspora, Beyond Citizenship 2. Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany: Occupying Black Bodies and Postwar Desire 3. Occupying American Blackness and Reconfiguring European Spaces: Noncitizen Articulations in Berlin and Beyond PART II HOLOCAUST MEMORY AND EXCLUSIONARY DEMOCRACY 4. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amid Contemporary Race 5. Democratization as Exclusion: Noncitizen Futures, Holocaust Heritage, and the Defunding of Refugee Participation PART III NONCITIZEN FUTURES 6. The Rehearsal Is the Revolution: “Insurrectionary Imagination” 7. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity versus Black Possibility Conclusion: From Claiming Blackness to Black Liberation Key Terms and Sites Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press In the Shade of the Sunna
Book SynopsisSalafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practicespraying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregationare understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis' competition with other social movements amid the intellectual and social upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism's own proponentsand the academics who often repeat theminto the larger sociocultural and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam's fastest growing revivalist movement.Trade Review"In the Shade of the Sunna [is] an indispensable reference for those interested in Salafism or Islam and, more broadly, for those intent on exploring the complicated but nevertheless constitutive entanglements between religious tradition and modernity." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments The Ethics of an Orphan Image A Note on Transliteration and Spelling Introduction 1. The Roots of Salafism: Strands of an Unorthodox Past, 1926–1970 2. Conquering Custom in the Name of Tawhid: The Salafi Expansion of Worship 3. Praying in Shoes: How to Sideline a Practice of the Prophet 4. The Salafi Mystique: From Fitna to Gender Segregation 5. Leading With a Fist: The Genesis and Consolidation of a Salafi Beard 6. Between Pants and the Jallabiyya: The Adoption of Isbal and the Battle for Authenticity Conclusion Bibliography Index
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University of California Press In the Shade of the Sunna
Book SynopsisSalafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practicespraying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregationare understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis' competition with other social movements amid the intellectual and social upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism's own proponentsand the academics who often repeat theminto the larger sociocultural and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam's fastest growing revivalist movement.Trade Review"In the Shade of the Sunna [is] an indispensable reference for those interested in Salafism or Islam and, more broadly, for those intent on exploring the complicated but nevertheless constitutive entanglements between religious tradition and modernity." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments The Ethics of an Orphan Image A Note on Transliteration and Spelling Introduction 1. The Roots of Salafism: Strands of an Unorthodox Past, 1926–1970 2. Conquering Custom in the Name of Tawhid: The Salafi Expansion of Worship 3. Praying in Shoes: How to Sideline a Practice of the Prophet 4. The Salafi Mystique: From Fitna to Gender Segregation 5. Leading With a Fist: The Genesis and Consolidation of a Salafi Beard 6. Between Pants and the Jallabiyya: The Adoption of Isbal and the Battle for Authenticity Conclusion Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Camera Palaestina
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University of California Press The Industrial Ephemeral
Book SynopsisWhat transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it?The Industrial Ephemeralpresents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The personal histories of those in India's large laboring classes are brought to life as Namita Vijay Dharia discusses the aggressive environmental and ecological metamorphosis of the region in the twenty-first century. Urban planning and architecture are messy processes that intertwine migratory pathways, corruption politics, labor struggle, ecological transformations, and technological development. Rampant construction activity produces an atmosphere of ephemerality in urban regions, creating an aesthetic condition that supports industrial political economy. Dharia's brilliant analysis of the sensibilities and experiences of work lends visibility to the struggle of workers in an era of growing urban inequality.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Anonymity Introduction: An Asynchronous Time Line 1. Ephemeral Infrastructures 2. The Financial Sublime 3. Drawing Fantasies 4. The Industry of Sound 5. Inside the Pit 6. Concrete Love Conclusion: Inquilab Zindabad (Long Live Revolution) Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Consuming Stories
Book SynopsisIn Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist's book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker's production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker's sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, and the fairy tale and with internationally known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Walker's interruption of these familiar works , along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend Trade Review“Peabody asserts that narrative is a necessary interpretative scheme with which to approach Walker’s art, and the author gives deep histories to some of the most interesting moments in Walker’s narrative engagement. . . . [A] remarkable book which spans Walker’s nearly twenty-year long career to date…” * Oxford Art Journal *"This excellent book contributes greatly to the plethora of existing scholarship on Kara Walker." * Panorama *“Rebecca Peabody’s lyrically written, provocative, and smart new take on Kara Walker suggests that there is, in fact, much more to say about this artist. . . . Peabody has set the bar high. Not only does she rigorously review the copious literature on Walker, but she has taken considerable trouble to familiarize herself with Walker’s own words and ideas in order to present as thorough a critique of this enigmatic artist. Brava.” * Woman’s Art Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Kara Walker, Storyteller 1. The End of Uncle Tom 2. The Pop of Racial Violence 3. American Romance in Black and White 4. The International Appeal of Race 5. Storytelling in Film and Video Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press The Anatomy of Loneliness
Book SynopsisLoneliness is everybody's business. Neither a pathology nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Severe and chronic loneliness, however, is a threat to individual and public health and appears to be on the rise. In this illuminating book, anthropologist Chikako Ozawa-de Silva examines loneliness in Japan, focusing on rising rates of suicide, the commodification of intimacy, and problems impacting youth. Moving from interviews with college students, to stories of isolation following the 2011 natural and nuclear disasters, to online discussions in suicide website chat rooms, Ozawa-de Silva points to how society itself can exacerbate experiences of loneliness. A critical work for our world, The Anatomy of Loneliness considers how to turn the tide of the lonely society and calls for a deeper understanding of empathy and subjective experience on both individual and systemic levels. Trade Review"Anatomy of Loneliness provides rich information on and analytical insights into the psychological pain of certain groups of people in Japan. . . .rich, thought-provoking content [that] challenges the reader with such important life questions." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Insightful and unique." * Pacific Affairs *"The Anatomy of Loneliness is undoubtedly a milestone in contemporary Japan studies." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments A Note on Language Introduction: Disconnected People and the Lonely Society 1. Subjectivity and Empathy 2. Too Lonely to Die Alone: Internet Group Suicide 3. Connecting the Disconnected: Suicide Websites 4. Meaning in Life: Exploring the Need to Be Needed among Young Japanese 5. Surviving 3.11 6. The Anatomy of Resilience 7. What Loneliness Can Teach Us Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Moving City
Book SynopsisThe Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, andhow people live with and through its built environment, this is a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.Trade Review"The Moving City is an important contribution to the growing literature on urban infrastructure. It is evocative and shows us the variegated ways in which mobility is mediated by aspirations, fears, exclusions and political negotiations." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"The vignettes captured by the author, constituting in effect a collection of ukiyo-e, ‘pictures of the floating world,’ is a delightful and interesting twist on ethnographic writing and representation. . . Sadana’s book offers a very special approach to the study of urban infrastructure and demonstrates how these little floating scenes of everyday life can tell us something about big and complex social issues." * Asian Anthropology *"The strength of this book lies in what it has to offer as a method of encountering urban spaces. . . .This ethnography would be a welcome addition to courses in urban anthropology, anthropologies of gender, class, South Asia, and ethnographic method." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Vivid and rich with detail. . . .Sadana…emphasizes the uniqueness of the Delhi Metro by centering the voices of the many people who make up its daily life." * Metropolitics *"[A] beautifully crafted account of how life in Delhi becomes narrated through the Metro as it joins and cuts across disparate urban spaces." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A radical work that throws open established modes of Indian anthropological writing." * Biblio: A Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I Crowded The Train to Dwarka Mandi House Vanita The Image of the City Metro Bhawan Space and Matter Red Line Resident Welfare Okhla Station Naipaul on the Metro Nukkad Natak Mumbai Urban Hazards Ramlila Maidan From Badarpur Yellow Line Drishti A Developed Country Social Space Seelampur Station Pressure Cooker Blue Line Delhi-6 Bus Rapid Transit The Bicycle Fixer Part II Expanding A Road's Geography The Gangway Spontaneous Urbanism Nehru Place Rupali Chief Minister City of Malls Violet Line Metal and Plastic Appropriate Architecture Chawri Bazar Ajay and Gita Ring Road Grievance and Governance Morning Commute Orange Line The Play about the Metro Aspirational Planning Renu and Shiv Layers and Sediment Green Line Cycle Rickshaw-wala Metro Mob The Techno-cosmopolitan The Politics of Speed Part III Visible World Class Strike Bus Infrastructure by Example Magenta Line Radhika Posture Integration The Photo That Went Viral Voids and Solids Beauty Salon Suicide Multiple Choice Jahnavi Café Coffee Day Looks Street Survey Aasif E-rickshaws Love Marriage and a Head Injury Fare Hike At Home in Dakshinpuri Dilli Haat Pink Line City Park Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Dangerous Love
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as pimp-prostitute arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine to be consumed by social suffering.Dangerous Lovecenters a framework of love to rethink sex workers' intimate relationships as commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of oppression. Combining epidemiological research and ethnographic fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico, Jennifer LeighSyvertsen examines how individuals try to find love and meaning in lives marked by structural violence, social marginalization, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Linking the political economy of inequalities along the border with emotional lived experience, this book explores how intimate relationships become dang
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University of California Press Huizhou
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries intertwined to shape Huizhou identity as a land of prominent lineages. This gentrified self-image both sheltered and guided the development of mercantile lineages, which were further bolstered by the gender regime and the local religious order. As Guo demonstrates, the discrepancy between representation and practice helps explain Huizhou's triumphs. The more active the economy became, the more those central to its commercialization embraced conservative sociocultural norms. Home lineages embraced neo-Confucian orthodoxy even as they provided the financial and lTrade Review"This book not only strengthens and advances the study of Huīzhōu but also makes a signature contribution to the study of late imperial China by revisiting longstanding questions about the formation of lineages through the study of Huīzhōu in the Míng dynasty." * Religious Studies Review *
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University of California Press Taking Children
Book SynopsisYou have to take the children away.Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about crack babies.In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful correcTrade Review"This is a formidable book, one that cuts against the Trump exceptionalism that suffuses much mainstream liberal discourse." * Boston Review *“An incisive history of kidnapping as American policy. . . . Connects these into a seamless tale of torment, torture and arrogance; a description of US history if there ever was one. It is a history that demands a reckoning.” * CounterPunch *“A forceful and captivating book that readers won’t be able to put down, and that listeners from all sort of backgrounds will definitely want to hear more about.” * New Books Network *Briggs . . . recounts outrages that are only a few decades old. Resurrecting this forgotten history, she demonstrates its continuity with the recent separation of migrant families.” * Reason *“A meticulously-researched, humane, and highly readable work of scholarship. . . . Essential reading for all those with an interest in human rights, social justice issues, child welfare, immigration and American history. It should inspire a generation to challenge and resist the cruel practice of taking children for political ends.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide- ranging and uncomfortably revealing account of what might be called the tradition of family separation." * New York Review of Books *"Briggs’ storytelling style in this incisive and well-researched text will keep readers engaged and moving quickly through its pages. . . .Taking Children is an important read for social work students considering a career in child welfare or family services and for professionals and lawmakers interested in movements to reform systems that have historically served to control and police the behavior of individuals and communities of color." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Taking Children serves as a powerful manifesto. . . .to promote greater solidarity and activism among many different groups that have been so unjustly targeted for child removal." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"Briggs’ sympathy is clear. . . . A useful background resource for courses on immigration issues." * Religious Studies Review *"Taking Children[’s]… accessible and engaging language would serve undergraduate gender and women’s studies classes well. Pedagogical discussions inspired by this book might explore historical memory and mythmaking, grassroots activism, and the symbolic significance of children in the American imagination." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Amnesia 1. Taking Black Children 2. Taking Native Children 3. Taking Children in Latin America 4. Criminalizing Families of Color 5. Taking the Children of Refugees Conclusion: Taking Children Back—Resistance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Data Borders
Book SynopsisData Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship. Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Melissa Villa-Nicholas shows how surreptitious monitoring of Latinx immigrants is the focus of and driving force behind Silicon Valley's growing industry within defense technology manufacturing. Villa-Nicholas reveals a murky network that gathers data on marginalized communities for purposes of exploitation and control that implicates law enforcement, Border Patrol, and ICE, but that also pulls in public workers and the general public, often without their knowledge or consent. Enriched by interviews of Latinx immigrants living in the borderlands who describe their daily use of technology and their caution around surveillance, this book argues that in order to move beyond a heavily surveilled state that dehumanizes both imTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations PART ONE. THE DATE BODY MILIEU Un Pincel de Rapunzel Introduction 1. The Physical Borderlands, the Data Borderland 2. Latinx Data Bodies 3. Networked: Meet the New Migra 4. The Good Citizen: Citizen Milieu 5. The Stories We Tell: Storytelling for Data Borders PART TWO. REIMAGINED TECHNO-FUTURES Pero Queríamos Norte 6. First-Person Parables: Imagining Borderlands and Technologies Conclusion: Esperanza, Yet Hope Remains Acknowledgments References Index
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University of California Press Data Borders
Book SynopsisData Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship. Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Melissa Villa-Nicholas shows how surreptitious monitoring of Latinx immigrants is the focus of and driving force behind Silicon Valley's growing industry within defense technology manufacturing. Villa-Nicholas reveals a murky network that gathers data on marginalized communities for purposes of exploitation and control that implicates law enforcement, Border Patrol, and ICE, but that also pulls in public workers and the general public, often without their knowledge or consent. Enriched by interviews of Latinx immigrants living in the borderlands who describe their daily use of technology and their caution around surveillance, this book argues that in order to move beyond a heavily surveilled state that dehumanizes both imTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations PART ONE. THE DATE BODY MILIEU Un Pincel de Rapunzel Introduction 1. The Physical Borderlands, the Data Borderland 2. Latinx Data Bodies 3. Networked: Meet the New Migra 4. The Good Citizen: Citizen Milieu 5. The Stories We Tell: Storytelling for Data Borders PART TWO. REIMAGINED TECHNO-FUTURES Pero Queríamos Norte 6. First-Person Parables: Imagining Borderlands and Technologies Conclusion: Esperanza, Yet Hope Remains Acknowledgments References Index
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University of California Press Cinematic Independence
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independencetraces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America.The 1980s and 1990s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. However, after 1999, the exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of multiplexes.Cinematic Independenceis about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades bracketing independence in 1960,and the years after 1999.At stake is the Nigerian postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate, but also a testament to cinema's persistenceit
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University of California Press Reunion
Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cyclTrade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
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University of California Press Reunion
Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military scorched-earth operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. All book royalties ofReunionwill be donated by the author to Pro-Búsqueda and related causes.Trade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
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University of California Press Worlds of Gray and Green
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From forever chemicals to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the wasteknown as tailingsengages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing environmental devastation. Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Residualism 2 • Carp, Algae, Dragon 3 • Happy Coexistence 4 • Parasitism 5 • Life against Life 6 • Symbiopower Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Worlds of Gray and Green
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From forever chemicals to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the wasteknown as tailingsengages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing environmental devastation. Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Residualism 2 • Carp, Algae, Dragon 3 • Happy Coexistence 4 • Parasitism 5 • Life against Life 6 • Symbiopower Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press After Servitude
Book SynopsisHow are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from Mestizo elites and, when that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against institutional faith in property ownership as a means to detach land from people and present from past, the kin of former masters and servants alike have insisted that ethical debts from earlier racial violence stretch across epochs and formal land sales. What emerges is a vision of justice grounded in popular demands that wealth remain beholden to the region's agrarian past. By tracing Ayopayans' active efforts to contend with servitude's long shadow, Mareike Winchell illuminates the challenges that property confrTrade Review"After Servitude invites us to pay closer attention to the ways people make claims on each other as they assert and rework the bonds of relatedness—as a means of repair, but not escape from the past." * Anthropological Quarterly *"In After Servitude justice is described as a historical continuum that may lead to redress if it is interpreted appropriately by the actors of the present. Justice is something that has to be socially enacted, secured from the other, sometimes by force." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Through her deft interweaving of classical and contemporary social theory and the actions and words of her Bolivian interlocutors, Winchell creates a complex and sobering picture of the tangled and often contradictory valences of who lays claims to former hacienda land, how those claims are raised and resolved, and the extent to which land as property is intertwined with long-standing schemas of sociality and inequity in Bolivia’s central highlands." * American Ethnologist *"After Servitude speaks to the value of deep ethnographic spadework for understanding and assessing the complex challenges and limits of Bolivia’s ongoing experiment in postcolonial state-building." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part One: Kinship 1 • Claiming Kinship 2 • Gifting Land Part Two: Property 3 • Producing Property 4 • Grounding Indigeneity Part Three: Exchange 5 • Demanding Return 6 • Reviving Exchange Conclusion: Property’s Afterlives Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Two Systems Two Countries A Nationalist Guide to
Book SynopsisAs Hong Kong is integrated into the People's Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why. Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico shows, is more than just a provocation testing Beijing's red lines: it represents a collective awakening to the failure of One Country Two Systems and the need to transcend obsolete orthodoxies. With a conclusion that examines Hong Kong nationalism's influence on the 2019 protest movement, Two Systems, Two Countries is an engaging and accessible introduction to the tumultuous shifts in Hong Kong politics and identity over the past decade.Trade Review"Carrico’s goal is to provide 'an introduction to the main schools of Hong Kong nationalism, giving readers the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of independence activists and recognize their intellectual contribution to the study of the politics of Hong Kong and China'. He achieves this and more: his lucid and comprehensive survey is likely to become the pre-eminent account of Hong Kong’s nationalist currents." * TLS *"One of the most important English-language books written on post-handover Hong Kong. . . .written in a clear and captivating style that makes it attractive far beyond the academic community." * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Newest Nationalism From One Country, Two Systems to Two Systems, Two Countries A Note on Method and Surveillance Layout of the Book 1. Hong Kong Ethnogenesis Take One: The Psychopathology of Identity Take Two: Noncompliance Cycle Take Three: Toward a Critique of Hong Kong under Chinese Rule Take Four: On the Ethnicization of the Hong Kong Police Force 2. Two Systems, Two Countries: New Directions in Political Thought in Hong Kong since 2011 From City-State Theory to Eternal Basic Law Self-Determination: An Unrequited Social Contract Hong Kong Independence Returnism: Party Like It’s 1997 Conclusion: Hong Kong’s Political Enlightenment 3. Seeing (Exactly) Like a State: Knowledge/Power in the Hong Kong-China Relationship Toward a Structuralist Orientalism Hong Kong as Child Hong Kong as Hysteric Hong Kong as Outlaw Hong Kong as Virus: One Body, Two Systems From Knowledge/Power to Ignorance/Power to Knowledge versus Power: The Not-So-Hidden Script of Hong Kong Policy Conclusion: Knowledge versus Power Character Glossary with Cantonese (Yale) and Mandarin (Pinyin) Romanization Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Two Systems Two Countries
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Carrico’s goal is to provide 'an introduction to the main schools of Hong Kong nationalism, giving readers the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of independence activists and recognize their intellectual contribution to the study of the politics of Hong Kong and China'. He achieves this and more: his lucid and comprehensive survey is likely to become the pre-eminent account of Hong Kong’s nationalist currents." * TLS *"One of the most important English-language books written on post-handover Hong Kong. . . .written in a clear and captivating style that makes it attractive far beyond the academic community." * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Newest Nationalism From One Country, Two Systems to Two Systems, Two Countries A Note on Method and Surveillance Layout of the Book 1. Hong Kong Ethnogenesis Take One: The Psychopathology of Identity Take Two: Noncompliance Cycle Take Three: Toward a Critique of Hong Kong under Chinese Rule Take Four: On the Ethnicization of the Hong Kong Police Force 2. Two Systems, Two Countries: New Directions in Political Thought in Hong Kong since 2011 From City-State Theory to Eternal Basic Law Self-Determination: An Unrequited Social Contract Hong Kong Independence Returnism: Party Like It’s 1997 Conclusion: Hong Kong’s Political Enlightenment 3. Seeing (Exactly) Like a State: Knowledge/Power in the Hong Kong-China Relationship Toward a Structuralist Orientalism Hong Kong as Child Hong Kong as Hysteric Hong Kong as Outlaw Hong Kong as Virus: One Body, Two Systems From Knowledge/Power to Ignorance/Power to Knowledge versus Power: The Not-So-Hidden Script of Hong Kong Policy Conclusion: Knowledge versus Power Character Glossary with Cantonese (Yale) and Mandarin (Pinyin) Romanization Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Heavy Metal Islam
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface to the 2022 Edition Introduction: Rock and Resistance in the Muslim World 1 • Morocco: When the Music Is Banned, the Real Satanism Will Begin 2 • Egypt: Bloggers, Brothers, and the General’s Son 3 • Israel/Palestine: Hard Music in an Orphaned Land 4 • Lebanon: Music and the Power of Blood 5 • Iran: “Like a Flower Growing in the Middle of the Desert” 6 • Pakistan: Shotguns and Munaqqababes along the Arabian Sea Epilogue: Which Way to the Future? Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Heavy Metal Islam
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface to the 2022 Edition Introduction: Rock and Resistance in the Muslim World 1 • Morocco: When the Music Is Banned, the Real Satanism Will Begin 2 • Egypt: Bloggers, Brothers, and the General’s Son 3 • Israel/Palestine: Hard Music in an Orphaned Land 4 • Lebanon: Music and the Power of Blood 5 • Iran: “Like a Flower Growing in the Middle of the Desert” 6 • Pakistan: Shotguns and Munaqqababes along the Arabian Sea Epilogue: Which Way to the Future? Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Angloscene
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Anglosceneexamines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing's aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Jay Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university students are mediated through complex intersectional relationships with whiteness, the English language, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: How does English become more than a languageand whiteness more than a race?Engaging in this inquiry, Ke-Schutteexplores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the discursive contours of a changing transnational political orderone that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations.
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University of California Press A Landscape of War
Book SynopsisWhat worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and scattered land mines have become the environment where everyday life is waged. This book dwells with multispecies partnerships such as tobacco farming and goatherding that carry life through seasons of destruction. Neither green-tinged utopia nor total devastation, these ecologies make life possible in an insistently deadly region. Sourcing an anthropology of war from where it is lived, this book decolonizes distant theories of war and brings to light creative practices forged in the midst of ongoing devastation. In lyrical prose that resonates with imperiled conditions across the Global South, Khayyat paints a portrait of war as a place where life must go on.Trade Review"The staying power of this book is how it models a way to think outside accumulated disasters as discrete events, how to use ethnography to render life under a constant state of precarity and violence. Khayyat’s approach, ethnographic sensitivity, and relentless focus on “living with” rather than “living despite” scale up and apply broadly to accumulated crisis in both other locales and on a planetary scale." * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"A Landscape of War is a rich and daring ethnography. Ethically and politically committed to honoring the terms through which her interlocutors understand their vital and lethal environments, Khayyat conceptualizes war as a place of life and reclaims resistance as political action, highlighting its ordinary and relational nature. . . . a powerful and necessary meditation on the domesticity of war: war as something that is managed and that can be (to a certain extent) tamed, as well as a space that is inhabited, that bitterly becomes home." * Current Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Prelude: Warlight Acknowledgments Note on Language and the Text Introduction: War, from the South 1. A Brief History of War in South Lebanon 2. Battle/field 3. The Bitter Crop 4. How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape 5. Maskun, or Nature’s Resistance 6. The Gray Zone Conclusion: Life as War Coda: A Marriage in Galilee Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press New Export China
Book SynopsisWhy do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique genre of ceramic art to describe a framework for a broader art practice. Focusing on the work of four artists from the 1990s through the 2010sLiu Jianhua, Ai Weiwei, Ah Xian, and Sin-ying HoBurchmore reveals how the materiality of ceramics has been used to highlight China's role in global trade and to explore the function of this medium as a vessel for the transmission of Chinese art, culture, and ideas. From its historical pedigree and transcultural relevance to its material allure and anthropomorphic resonance, porcelain offers artists a unique way to move between the global and the intimate, the mass produced and the handmade, and the foreign and the domestic. By dissecting both the legacy of porcelain export and current networks of exchange, Burchmore ultimately demonstrates why this ceramic practice is crucial to understanding the deveTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Porcelain Production 2. Porcelain Past 3. Porcelain Renaissance 4. Porcelain Clay Conclusion: A Porcelain Aesthetic? Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Provincializing Empire
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Provincializing Empireexplores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from Omi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of Japan and the Pacific World Introduction Part One. Ōmi Merchants in the Early Modern Era 1. The Rise of Ōmi Shōnin as Diasporic Traders 2. At the Nexus of Colonialism and Capitalism in Hokkaido Part Two. Ōmi Merchants as a Model of Expansion 3. A Vision of Transpacific Expansion from the Periphery 4. The Production of Global Ōmi Shōnin Part Three. Ōmi Merchants across the Transpacific Diaspora 5. The “Gōshū Zaibatsu” in Japan’s Cotton Empire 6. Ōmi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail 7. A Shiga Immigrant Diaspora in Canada Conclusion Notes Bibliography Glossary-Index
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University of California Press Self Help Graphics at Fifty A Cornerstone of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The contributors frame Self Help Graphics as an arts organization with the potential to inspire a vision of a more just and inclusive art world, providing new perspectives on the organization and its significant contributions to the Chicano art movement and making Los Angeles a major center for global art." * Design and Culture *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART 1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition JV Decemvirale 2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles Adriana Katzew 3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of Solidarity Mary Thomas PART TWO: THE ATELIER 4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics Claudia Zapata 5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA Robb Hernández 6. Self Help Graphics & Art’s Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories Karen Mary Davalos PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD 7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels Kency Cornejo 8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s Olga U. Herrera 9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversation with Arlene Dávila Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza Atelier History Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Book SynopsisThe definitive historyof a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building. Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States. Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. The institution's commitment to art, dignity for all, and empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx artists appears in every aspect of programming, including the Día de los Muertos festival; the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, which brings art education to underserved schools; and the printmaking program, which offers an accessible medium infused with activist aims. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization's influential role in US and global art historiTrade Review"The contributors frame Self Help Graphics as an arts organization with the potential to inspire a vision of a more just and inclusive art world, providing new perspectives on the organization and its significant contributions to the Chicano art movement and making Los Angeles a major center for global art." * Design and Culture *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART 1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition JV Decemvirale 2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles Adriana Katzew 3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of Solidarity Mary Thomas PART TWO: THE ATELIER 4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics Claudia Zapata 5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA Robb Hernández 6. Self Help Graphics & Art’s Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories Karen Mary Davalos PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD 7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels Kency Cornejo 8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s Olga U. Herrera 9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversation with Arlene Dávila Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza Atelier History Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press White Power and American Neoliberal Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"White Power and American Neoliberal Culture [illuminates] how the domestic sphere functions as a reproductive mechanism for raced and classed inequality and vehemence." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Disaster Whiteness 1 • Starting Points: White Power Neoliberalism / Neoliberal White Power 2 • Immiseration Culture, or How the Family Became a Trope and a Truncheon 3 • Far White Family Values: Strategies for Neoliberal Takeover 4 • The "Family" at the Core of White Power Utopia Conclusions in Strange Times, or Life within the Conjuncture of Neoliberalism and White Power Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Disrupting the Patron
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peonsa decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by Trade Review"Disrupting the Patrón is a superb ethnography of Indigenous environmental justice as well as a nuanced account of the possibilities and challenges of land back. It deserves to be widely read by scholars and practitioners of all stripes." * Antipode *"Correia constructs a provocative ethnography which centers on the land struggles of the Enxet and Sanapaná people and offers a timely reminder of the racialized regimes and unequal geographies that mark the landscape of a rapidly changing economic frontier in Latin America." * NACLA *"Joel Correia’s timely Disrupting the Patrón has arrived at a moment of unprecedented national investment in environmental justice within the United States, and as Indigenous-led calls for the return of stolen land across North America continue to grow. Correia’s in-depth ethnographic study of the Indigenous Paraguayan communities of Enxet and Sanapaná’s decades-long fight for return of their ancestral lands adds critical insight to this movement, pushing the limits of how environmental justice is often defined and pursued within the states while still honoring its origin." * Sierra *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Environmental Justice Otherwise Rupture 1: Open/Closed Chapter 1: “A Land in the Making” Rupture 2: Boundaries Chapter 2: Not-Quite-Neoliberal Multiculturalism Rupture 3: In/Visible Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Neglect Rupture 4: Prison Chapter 4: Restitution as Development? Rupture 5: Heart Chapter 5: Five Years of Life Rupture 6: Spectacle Conclusion: In Pursuit of Environmental Justice Postcript Notes Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Sounding the Indian Ocean
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Sounding the Indian Oceanis the first volume to integrate the fields of ethnomusicology and Indian Ocean studies. Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches,the book explores what music reveals about mobility, diaspora, colonialism, religiousnetworks, media, and performance.Collectively, the chapters examine different ways the Indian Ocean might be heard outside of a reliance on colonial archives and elite textual traditions, integrating methods from music and sound studies into the history and anthropology of the region. Challenging the area studies paradigmwhich has long cast Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as separate musical culturesthe book shows how music both forms and crosses boundaries in the Indian Ocean world.
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University of California Press Andean Meltdown
Book SynopsisAndean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. Apathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Water, Power, and Offerings 2 • Tapay: The Offering Must Go On 3 • Cabanaconde: The Hole in the Channel 4 • Huaytapallana: The Apu That Is Dying 5 • Quyllurit’i: The Glacier That Shines Like a Star Conclusion Notes References Index
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